Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-31 Thread Kathy Wills
Ed Jabbour wrote: On Monday 31 January 2005 03:52 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:36 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig < just in case etc-update whacks it etc-update won't whack it. You may when running etc-update but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Monday 31 January 2005 03:52 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:36 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig < just in case etc-update > > whacks it > > etc-update won't whack it. You may when running etc-update but the program > itse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:36 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: > cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.orig < just in case etc-update > whacks it etc-update won't whack it. You may when running etc-update but the program itself never does harm. > emerge -vp =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 <---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-30 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 30 January 2005 05:52 pm, Bill Six wrote: > --- Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 28 January 2005 03:04 am, Bill Six wrote: > >> Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. > >> All I can see is my background. The bar at the bottom >> >won't display. Nothing works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:52:46 -0800 (PST), Bill Six wrote: > How do you downgrade a package? emerge -av =cat-egory/package-x.y.z-rN where x.y.z-rN is the version you wish to install. -- Neil Bothwick The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-30 Thread Bill Six
Hi, How do you downgrade a package? Bill --- Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 03:04 am, Bill Six wrote: > > Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. > All I > > can see is my background. The bar at the bottom > won't > > display. Nothing works at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-28 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 28 January 2005 03:04 am, Bill Six wrote: > Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. All I > can see is my background. The bar at the bottom won't > display. Nothing works at all. I can't really > describe anything more than that. I'm just trying to > see if someone else has h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Kain
I am currently using a riva tnt2 on a server and it workd did you emerge nvidia-kernel? did you specify in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.* to load the nvidia module? Did you specify nvidia as your drive in your xorg.conf ? Try that if you havent yet On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:11:52 +, Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:04:08 -0800 (PST), Bill Six wrote: > Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. All I > can see is my background. The bar at the bottom won't > display. Nothing works at all. I can't really > describe anything more than that. I'm just trying to > see if someone els

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Six
Sorry about the ambiguity. Windows won't open. All I can see is my background. The bar at the bottom won't display. Nothing works at all. I can't really describe anything more than that. I'm just trying to see if someone else has had these problems. Bill Six --- Lenroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[gentoo-user] Re: NVidia on Riva TNT2

2005-01-27 Thread Lenroc
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:00:18 -0800, Bill Six wrote: > However, for some reason when I load kde/gnome/or blackbox, they are > practically unusable. This is useless as troubleshooting information. What, specifically is wrong with them? For help on asking questions, see: http://www.catb.org/~esr/f